# Setting User Credentials

### SETS HEDERA CREDENTIALS

## Sets Hedera credentials for the user

<mark style="color:orange;">`PUT`</mark> `/profiles/{username}`

Sets Hedera credentials for the user. For users with the Standard Registry role it also creates an address book

#### Path Parameters

| Name                                       | Type   | Description                                             |
| ------------------------------------------ | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------- |
| username<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | The name of the user for whom to update the information |

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```

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```

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{% tab title="500: Internal Server Error " %}

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